SLS is still the mandated launch vehicle for Europa Clipper, but also remains a source of disagreement between the Trump Administration and Congress. Congress mostly recently retained the SLS ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper is using Mars and Earth’s gravity to travel efficiently to Jupiter. The spacecraft will study Europa’s ...

"It's like a game of billiards around the solar system, flying by a couple of planets at just the right angle and timing to ...

Europa Clipper: NASA plans for launch life-searching mission to Jupiter ... 28 with a pair of astronauts to the International Space Station on a vehicle that will eventually bring the Boeing ...

At launch, Europa Clipper will weigh approximately 13,000 lbs. Almost half of the weight will be fuel – nearly 6,000 lbs of propellant. “Europa Clipper will launch in October 2024 on a SpaceX ...

Navigators sent the spacecraft on an initial trajectory that left some buffer around Mars so that if anything were to go wrong in the weeks after launch, Europa Clipper wouldn't risk impacting the ...

It was a history making launch -- when NASA’s Europa Clipper embarked on its long five-year voyage to Jupiter. The $5 billion spacecraft is the largest ever built for a mission headed to another ...

Rayme Traub placed his daughter’s name onto the interior vault of Europa Clipper, a NASA probe that ... a space telescope set to launch in 2027, and the Habitable Worlds Observatory, which ...

NASA's Europa Clipper will initiate a gravity assist on its journey to Jupiter. The probe will slingshot around Mars to gain speed. NASA footage ...

NASA has been preparing for their Europa Clipper mission since 2013, when the mission’s pre-project was approved. The spacecraft is roughly the length of a basketball court, making it the ...

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Today (March 1), NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft will fly past Mars, gliding just 550 miles (884 kilometers) above the Red Planet's surface. This maneuver is designed to ...